So I'm not a physicist, but I have built parts for a fusor for a physicist. I'm a toolmaker who works for the Faculty of Science in the uni of Sydney. Perhaps I can answer a few of the criticisms leveled at this bloke. 1. Temperature. Temperature is a measure of the kinetic energy of molecules. You can have very high temperature gas (or plasma) that is unable to transmit much heat due to the fact that there are fewer molecules present. It's a vacuum chamber after all. Again - I'm not a physicist, but that's my take. 2. Have a look on the wikipedia article for fusors or fusion reactors and do some homework before claiming that this isn't fusion. That glow leads me to think it is. 3. The reason this guy isn't a millionaire is because this is old tech that yields a net loss in energy. I.e. you get less energy out than you put in - but that does not mean it's a fake.
Althouh the brihtness suggests fusion, i doubt it is, fusin hydrogen is more power consuming than fusing deuterium, due to the mass defference and momentum difference of both. One way he could prove this reactor works is by collecting the gas samples and doing some chromatography on it, see if helium or other atom thatisnt hydrogen is showing its colors.
Think I did it wrong. Small black sphere hovering in the center of room, now. 🌌 It's removing all the dust and small flying insects though, so it's okay, I guess!
As someone who has built a working farnsworth fusor I find this design pretty. His information is slightly deceptive though as this is NOT a neutron producing reactor. This is a demo fusor toy. To achieve measurable fusion you need to back fill the chamber with deuterium gas. What your seeing isn’t fusion. It’s a plasma generator.
Would hydrogen from water vapor in the air not be accelerated into the center at fast enough speed and temperature to cause fusion? Its a minuscule amount, not enough to get close to the power of the light emitted from the coronal discharge, but still occurring, no?
It's possible, but not plausible. You really don't record neutron production above background unless you're running some type of gas delivery system. His example is nice but not fully functional.
@@ianbennett5997 Is a cool-looking plasma light generator, otherwise known as an HID Xenon bulb, without a areflector. This is as much a plasma generator as an Audi headlight is.
Actually, it IS fusion and it DOES generate neutrons. The gas is deuterium, and these devices are commonly used as neutron generators. They just draw a lot of energy, and don’t produce enough energetic alpha participles to be useful as an energy generation device. Neutron generation has been verified by multiple studies when tested under controlled conditions.
That's how you can tell its not real. Even the details he did provide are wrong. It takes 4 hydrogen atoms to fuse into 1 helium atom. You can't just shove two hydrogen atoms together, because without at least one neutron in the nucleus, they'll bounce off each other no matter how much energy you put in.
Hey if you'd still like a better explanation of this I'd recommend this video th-cam.com/video/ZO5IZz9NgJA/w-d-xo.html they go more into depth on what fusion reactors are and plasma in general.
@Henry Andrews incorrect. It technically takes 6, but two are released when the He-4 nucleus is finally produced. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%E2%80%93proton_chain_reaction
I was thinking the same, no build footage or commentary on what is happening, just Piece to camera, then a quick few shots with a totally out of place rap music backing track. Its a shame as the end result was really cool.
Yeah is does I really wanted to know how he sealed that thing to get got vacuum inside it also I wish he want into detail with the electronics and the voltage multiplier he made
@@rohanverma6058 isnt fake crap!!! He indeed made a fusion reactor...however it wasnt capable of fusion( he needed a dedicated 2 stage vacuum system and needed to use deuterium gas instead of hydrogen
fusion it stupidly safe, no chance of nuke anything... in fact it is stupidly hard to sustain the reaction. if something go wrong it just turn it down. FiSION is a chain reaction, FISION reactors are controled nukes... it is a chain reaction.
Would have been nice to see it running in real time to see and hear it as well as run a number of qualitative & quantitative tests on it to see where things are.
With ordinary hydrogen shines just as well. This is an ordinary gas discharge lamp. Light is emitted when recombination of positive ions with electrons. A positively charged electrode separates the electron from the nucleus and a positively charged ion is formed - the nucleus of hydrogen. The positively charged hydrogen nucleus is accelerated by the electric field and flies towards the negatively charged grid. Electrons are produced on the grid, which recombine with hydrogen nuclei and emit light. If deuterium is used, then perhaps a small part of the hydrogen nuclei, accelerated by an electric field, collides in the center and forms helium-4. That is, nuclear fusion is purely kinetic. And it depends on the probability of getting into the effective cross section of the nucleus. To really start a thermonuclear reaction, you must first create a highly ionized deuterium plasma. Then, it is necessary to place this positively charged plasma in a very strongly positively charged sphere. So much charged that the repulsive force from the walls of the sphere was more repulsive forces in an array of nuclei. In this case, the nuclei will be concentrated and squeezed in the center of the sphere.
The acceleration of ions in a fusor has long been shown to allow for detectable neutrons and thus confirmed fusion reactions although I am doubtful due to him never showing his neutron detection.
666ALISA666 Why are so many people “debunking” him, this is just a joke video. It’s obviously not fusion... I think when you debunk this trying to show your smarts, it just makes you look stupid.
@@DaRealPianist he does have a system set up in the correct way to attain fusion of he was using the right fuel and a better pump. There is just a mix of people here who have worked with IEC fusion setups and are checking his system and those that don't know what any of it is
@@DaRealPianist He is being incredibly genuine in his replies to comments and is (from what I can tell) using the correct setup but with the wrong resources. This may not be fusion but it sure is close enough for him to think that it is, and nevertheless, "debunking" him when he thinks that he has done it correctly just means giving constructive criticism (I'm not talking about the people who don't know what they are talking about and just want to think that they are smart, so they comment with some below par Wikipedia research)
I'm sure there's no fusion taking place. There's a similar video of some two nerds building this thing, equipped with turbomolecular pumps and GM counters... etc Normal environmental radiation background count is usually 14. they used deuterium as fuel and they had to hide in another room. The GM counter showed some 63000 clicks per minute, I don't remember, but that is enough to give you radiation sickness or cancer. not a toy to light your room always. I also remember a teenager who wanted to build it and there was so much emphasis on safety first from his guides. A solution of boron salt is a must in order to absorb the high energy neutrons from a safety point of view.
I wish you had focused less on the music and more on actual information. What is the gas? What does it do? How are things working? Such a shame. I had knowledge blue balls.
First non spherical fusor I’ve seen, so it’s good to see that the effect is not dependent on a uniform distance between anode and cathode. Would be interesting to see if a neutron detector picked up a significantly less output than a spherical fusor of the same radius. If not, then this fellow invented a miniaturized neutron generator!
I watched this twice, I noticed you didn't show how you made the middle piece that actually creates the light (plasma)..? And where did you hook the power supply up to?
@Theo RixLux Fellow physics undergrad, but I'd like to point out that this guy almost certainly did not achieve fusion (I don't trust anyone who thinks it only takes 2 hydrogen atoms to make a helium atom to be able to achieve fusion). I'd also like to point out that the only way to truly overcome the repulsion of protons during fusion is with neutrons, since they carry the strong nuclear force (this is why it requires 4 protons (actually, technically 6, but the end result of the reaction produces two extra protons in addition to the single helium nuclei), as opposed to 2, and while its an incredibly simplistic and incorrect way of looking at it, you can imagine that the mass of the helium nucleus must be equal to the mass of the hydrogen nuclei used to create it). I'm also concerned by the lack of neutron radiation shielding, because unless this guy wants a slow, painful death via radiation poisoning or cancer, if he knew what he was doing, he would have included neutron shielding, and a brief explanation of why its necessary to have.
@Theo RixLux well I am not a physicist but the fusion reactors I have seen in documentaries require more than some hydrogen and some voltage (if I remember correctly they use some kind of piston setup to pressurize the inner chamber so that fusion can occur). I'd say this is just some plasma.
@Theo RixLux also, there's no magic amount of energy that will allow two protons to stick together without at least one neutron. The coulomb forces are just too strong. Now, what can (and in the case of the proton-proton chain, MUST) happen, is that the energy of a proton-proton collision changes one of the protons into a neutron and emits a position and a neutrino.
Yeah I would have much rather watched a 45 minute video of him explaining how he did this and what each part does. Instead, we got a 7 minute video of him just showing it off. 😑
Billy Monday and that is why antivaxxers are a thing. Just telling him to do research without any context for what is or isn't true might lead them to the electric universe hypothesis.
@@IntRocketLaunch that it's not instructional it's just eye candy which doesn't sit well with the kind of people who like this kinda stuff because they want to actually know details.
@@Tyrone-Ward It does always matter. Kelvin is not measured in degrees. Period. It has nothing to do if you're at 300°C or -500°C. Kelvin will always be Kelvin, not "degrees Kelvin"
@@catdisc5304 As a fusion scientist at UTokyo I can tell you we usually use eV for temperature, it's a much more reasonable measure for plasma. If we do use degrees, we're not worried about the +-270 error margin when the plasma is at 10^7 degrees either way. Degrees Kelvin is a perfectly legitimate phrase, quit nitpicking to feel smart.
Do you have confirmed neutron emissions? What was the chosen reactant? A little doubtful sorry. Looks to me like a cathode tube with low pressure atmospheric gasses. Nice build though! Thumbs up.
my biggest blunder with this video was failing to say that this was a demo fusor. Shoddy writing on my part I’m afraid. I’m still learning how to do this and hopefully in future videos I’ll make things clearer! Thank you for the feedback though.
I mean it looked like he was making some hydrogen gas which was then stored in that balloon and I assume sucked into the chamber once a vacuum was pulled
I figure he was going for D-D fusion. Deuterium is the easiest fuel source for hobbyists to get. I asked about neutron emissions too. That would be the smoking gun of his success.
These guys are crazy. Great videography man... you got some skills! The mini fusor is nicely built as well. Kudos from a Nuclear Engineer and former machinist!
100 million degrees my sweet ars! Passing a 300 Amp arc through Argon only produces a plasma temp in the range of 25 to 30 thousand degrees and requires way the hell of a lot more power than you can get out of a wall socket. Next we will have Will telling us he has a bridge over the Thames he will sell us for just a few quid.
Nice work. I did this in 1987 when the cold fusion idea was originally floated. Im guessing your filament material was iron or possibly ni-chrome or tungsten. Regardless, If you ran this experiment for very long, you would have noticed the hydrogen "disappearing". Certainly not due to fusion, but to the adsorption of hydrogen into the filaments and the housing. Aluminum can do this and Fe is one of the best ways to store H2 in its metallic matrix. Back in the '80's we were using Palladium, as it too can absorb H2, D2 or T2. The concept at the heart of this experiment is NOT the temperature but rather the electric potential required to accelerate ions toward each other. The accelerating force is inversely proportional to the distance from the electrode. So, very small distances from the cathode surface and high electrical potential means a greater force on the ions (protons or nuclei) You can do this with as little as 700 Volts DC (the Ionization of any gas in this way is called a cathodic discharge). Having a higher voltage is better for acceleration, but a lot of the gas that surrounds the plasma "thermal-ized" or slows the ions by bouncing into the balance gas. So Lower vacuum is good, but too low and you cannot sustain a plasma; so there is a critical gas pressure/temperature problem. The proper set up for this experiment is to add a pressure / flow controller. It supplies balance gas and accounts for changes in pressure due to temperature rise of the apparatus and the balance gas. lastly. you cannot fuse normal hydrogen. (I like you generated the hydrogen rather than bought it (H) as there is nothing to hold the nucleus together once the nuclei are in proximity. For the strong nuclear force to hold them together (remember; two positively charged particles close together see an ever increasing electrostatic force repelling them). To overcome this force you need another particle to contribute the strong force...namely a neutron. Thus you need deuterium or tritium isotopes of hydrogen for fusion; the extra neutrons providing the additional strong force. Once fused, any excess neutrons are ejected. So to detect if fusion has occurred you need one of two kinds of detectors. 1. an ionization (or gamma ray) detector or 2. A neutron detector. The free neutron wont live long floating around by itself. As soon as it hits another element, like AL or FE, it creates an isotope of those elements and a gamma ray is given off. Or you can detect the neutron itself with a Boron/neutron detector. I've often thought about re-creating these early experiments with some modern techniques. Palladium is not hard to come by nor is any of the transition elements which have these properties (Titanium, Vanadium, etc). For those that haven't delved into this much; "cold" fusion does exist, but not in the form that would make it worthwhile. There is lots of evidence in the emissions from Volcanoes and some metamorphic rocks. I think the final statement about this phenomenon was "Cold Fusion is a rose; not a tree". Not sure where the current state of the art is; but if I had to guess, it would be at really cold temperatures because of the quantum mechanical aspects and not a high temperatures .
I very rarely comment on production quality, but I have to say this video really stands out with the crisp, well paced editing and choice of soundtrack (I also loved the Breaking Bad references). And the finished reactor wasn't bad either 😉 Brilliant job!
There's a hobbyist site for this called fusor.net. The first thing they will tell you is that measurable neutron counts are really really hard, i.e. D-D fusion is difficult on such a small scale. D-D fusion gives you light helium and a neutron. This guy does not have access to tritium, so no D-T reaction, and if he's trying proton-proton reactions with just regular hydrogen he's gonna have a bad time. Glowing purple is pretty normal for large scale plasmas, and impurities in air can also make a purple glow, so thats not a key indicator of whether this actually fused anything. You can make desktop fusion reactors, with a negative energy yield, but they have to be a lot more robust than this. He's most likely just heating hydrogen gas, if not he would have to be very careful with disposing of his apparatus, as neutron bombardment will create radio-active isotopes out of a lot of high z materials. Tungsten and carbon are often used in reactor walls as they create stable isotopes with the addition of a neutron. DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! Fusion reactors still produce radiation, especially with low budget setups that place impurities into the fuel.
Your montages remind me so much of those gritty British films from the 2000s. From the edgy background music to the snappy jump cuts and effects. I can really see the effort you put into editing. I love it; you earned my sub :)
I don't really understand why people insist that this is fake. The Farnsworth Fusor is a well tested and well understood fusion reactor. The mechanism is fairly simple, a wikipedia search will verify this design as being commonplace. It is even mentioned on the fusor wikipedia page that this type of reactor has been taken up by hobbyists and amateurs. This is fusion, albeit an extremely inefficient form of it. Very cool.
I personally had a design for a fusion reactor that uses a vacuum chamber and a microwave oven. I speculate that the RF should heat up the low pressure gas to extremely high temperatures, which could cause some fusion events to occur.
I wonder with some of the disciplines used in Hydro engineering be useful in controlling the plasma in a TokaMac reactor. Such as controlling the vertices of energetic plasma.
Real scientists spend millions and thousand of hours of calculating and research to get their fusion reactors to work for a quarter of a second. What you have there is just plasma. Energy in a near Vacuum. I'm a chemist no physicist thought but have had to take Multiple Physik classes before earning my Bachelor
but the difference between him and a scientist is that scientist are trying to produce energy which is much harder. this is a fusion reactor, its just not a very god one
@@vincentsantangelo3920 OMG. FUSION NEEDS MOLECULES TO FUSION ONE WITH A NOTHER. if there is a vaccum that's means there is nearly nothing in that chamber. If there is nothing then there's nothing to fusion. For fusion we usually try the Deutérium méthode where we have a H2 molecule reacting to form a He Atom. This process then ejects energy. What he created there is just high voltage energy. Basically dense energy in a vacuume. An this is called Plasma. You can see it in the color plasma has a special color Here as a star (fusion ) would have the color of the element that is being created (orrange blue etc ) I'm a chemistry bachelor major stating my master Thesis believe me when I say that that is not a fusion reactor. Look it up how fusion is made you'll see the sole part of there not being anything to fusion goes against the first law : nothing can be destroyed and nothing can be created. Everything is preserved
@@vincentsantangelo3920 dude it's 23 pm ... I do work on my thesis after my classes but still have free time dude 😅 it's like any thesis you do it in your free time over 2 years with help of your lab assistant. (Assistant is just the word for it, your assistant actually has a doctor title himself he just assists you on your thesis ) So yea I basically have the same spare time as anyone else that studies at a normal pace. And its actually my pet peeve this type of video especially the poeple believing this bullcrap... It's something that can easily be debunked with some basic science understanding but poeple see some energy in a vacuume and believe anything. Engineers actually are pretty dumb most of the time. Most of the calculations and drawings come from poeple with a master degree or doctor degree the engineers are just there to execute what the scientist tells them to do. So this guy is just an engineer that's the reason he has 0 scientific understanding. He puts a few resistances together that's about it. Does it look cool. Yes I guess so the same way a lava lamp looks cool . But he shouldn't be lying on his channel for views. Just makes poeple say this kind of shit to me at parties "you're a scientist right ? Have you seen the guy that made a fusion reactor in his parents basement ? " " Have you seen the solar roadways ! " "Elon musk is such a genius ! Have you seen his flying car idea ?! " Yes all this I have seen. No nothing of this is actually logically backed. And no these poeple are not geniuses, if anything they have no understanding of basic physics ..... They have a good marketing gift tough
Couple of questions 1. Why doesn't the copper melt? Is it because of magnetic fields? 2. How do you put a gas is it? 3. Is the pump constantly working? If so why is the gas turning into plasma?
That belongs in a rap song. "Yeah Will, some explanation would be great. A Geiger counter in the first act means ionizing radiation by the third act. Look up Chekhov's Gun!"
There's a reason for that lmao do you understand how hot those fuckers get? If you left it on for any extended period of time it would have just melted down.
Maybe you could make an mhd generator out of two doughnut magnets and two rings. The magnets are stacked attracting each other. The rings could be inside or out with a small space. Just so the ionized gas goes into the rings. The magnets polarized the charges to the plates to work like a battery?
That's... not a fusor. That is just a fluorescent light bulb: the high voltage is ionizing the low pressure hydrogen around the cathode and the anode. That blue glow is indeed plasma and it surely reach several thousand kelvin in temperature, but it is NOT fusing anything and it is not at several million kelvin: black body radiation ensure that at 100.000.000K you aren't getting much visible photons, you're getting mostly gamma photons, which are invisible to us. Even a neon lightbulb is coated with fluorescent paint inside to boost the luminosity, because most of the "light" emitted there are UV rays. That's something you learn in high school, not with a PhD in nuclear physics.
@@RegiJatekokMagazin I mean it would be really easy to just put the ticking sound in audio. And we never saw the Geiger counter, so we really have no proof.
I see a lot of comments saying what you did wrong; how this is just plasma, however they are missing the biggest problem you have. If you look into the purple part of the light you will notice a deep ray coming from the cross section of the membrane reflecting into the T cell. With this reflection the apical meristem is deflecting light into the root of the problem. Long story short, your flux capacitor is wired in backwards and you just read this entire post for nothing and I’ve taken valuable moments of your time you will never get back, but you just can’t stop reading can you. Sitting on the toilet, laying in bed, chilling in your recliner, seeking videos to power your home with a small reactor so you can cruise through the comment section on TH-cam and feel empowered. Have a nice day. 👁
Madness . Of course my first suggestion is to pulse different coils around it to see effect and direrent duty and freq . Static magnets too. Second is different inert gases and 3rd in element powders from gardening , pool and household cleaning chemicals. Maybe dip the star in it
Okay, that's a Farnsworth Fusor, invented by Philo Farnsworth, who also invented the video camera (and a lot more things related to television). I'd expect that the heat and high voltage would quickly erode your silver-plated coating inside the chamber. And the device is putting out UV, X-rays, and energetic neutrons; don't sit too close to it.
Kelvin is on the same order of magnitude as Celsius or Fahrenheit. 273.15K is 0°C, and 373.15K is 100°C. The temperature is high, but there's nothing to transfer it to. And temperature is always about the movement of molecules, that's litteraly what it is.
Oh my God!!! I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!! You did it you actually did it, you have the sun on your desktop. A work of art just like the sun. All that energy, all that lovely energy never-ending power, and energy.
If you're still wondering about it I'd recommend this video th-cam.com/video/ZO5IZz9NgJA/w-d-xo.html they go more into depth on how this type of thing works and plasma in general
The Geiger counter went off like crazy in the background. It is not safe to be close to one unless you know what radiation it is and have the necessary protection. Alpha radiation is incredibly ionising but is blocked easily, Beta is harder to block but less ionising, and gamma is much harder to block but the least ionising. I believe that successful fusion reactions release neutrons (I have no idea where this goes on the scale, or how dangerous it is), however, this experiment was not successful and created a hydrogen lamp instead. I am not sure what radiation this emits and I would not risk being close to one
@@GrahamRounce I'm not fussed, who's actually gonna try build this anyways so what's the point in putting in loads of detail step by step when it would make the video slower and more boring to most
Probably one of the reasons that you don't get a better output to input energy is your high voltage circuits. Just a couple of AA batteries would be enough to create a crazy HV for a very long time because after getting the initial voltage on your plates in theory you have no moving charges thus no current and power consumption.
Actually Inertial Electrostatic Confinement devices such as this one (although I doubt this specific device did ) regularly perform fusion reactions at rates of several million neutrons per second. these devices are extremely inefficient but do get the job done and have since their invention over half a century ago. These devices work by creating a potential difference between two spherical electrodes which are transparent to the ions. A rarefied atmosphere of hydrogen-2 aka deuterium is ionized by the outer electrode and then the positive ions are attracted towards the centre. Yes the light seen is due to the same effect as in neon lights however at a much higher energy. Any fusion reactions must be detected as the neutrons emitted by the device as the ions fuse. As for the temperature, the required energy is imparted upon each ion in the same way as in a particle accelerator and thus the "temperature" is more equivalent to relative velocity and at below 1.0x10^5 Torr the ion temperature can be generalized as about 11.0x10^7 degrees Kelvin for every increase of 1000 volts potential difference. Thus running at 30kV these devices easily break 300 million degrees kelvin. These devices, sometimes called Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusors, are mostly used as high energy neutron sources and because of their high energy capabilities they are also used to study higher energy fusion, such as proton boron fusion. The heavier devices you are referring to are likely the more efficient magnetic confinement devices. these devices contain plasma in different geometries of solenoids and thus have a different set of operating principles, usually using neutral beam injection or microwaves to heat their plasma rather than a voltage acceleration as this is inefficient. There are many examples of good research done using IEC fusion devices and while this one may be misleading I hope that it has not put you off of the topic and I welcome you to explore the fascinating research done with ion accelerating fusion devices like these. For my part I invite you to make a simple one as it can be a fantastic experience and help to build an intuition for thermo distributions and high voltage potentials, they can be cheap and easy to make so long as you don't try to get them to do fusion as that usually takes an expensive steel chamber although no increase in size, the whole experience is one I myself have and one I believe many more should try. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_electrostatic_confinement www.fusor.net/board/index.php?sid=8dbb489f34fedd7744cb9b76709dd057 and visit my channel for fusor tests and other experiments with high voltage if you would like :)
No take 2 magnets and attach them to each open end of the cylinder so that the opposing poles are facing eachother, hook them both up to a rotational device and spin them clockwise at a very high rpm
So I'm not a physicist, but I have built parts for a fusor for a physicist. I'm a toolmaker who works for the Faculty of Science in the uni of Sydney. Perhaps I can answer a few of the criticisms leveled at this bloke.
1. Temperature. Temperature is a measure of the kinetic energy of molecules. You can have very high temperature gas (or plasma) that is unable to transmit much heat due to the fact that there are fewer molecules present. It's a vacuum chamber after all. Again - I'm not a physicist, but that's my take.
2. Have a look on the wikipedia article for fusors or fusion reactors and do some homework before claiming that this isn't fusion. That glow leads me to think it is.
3. The reason this guy isn't a millionaire is because this is old tech that yields a net loss in energy. I.e. you get less energy out than you put in - but that does not mean it's a fake.
David Cassar Said better than I could’ve myself. You’re spot on! Thanks 🙂
No worries mate. There's a lot of misinformation out there!
Althouh the brihtness suggests fusion, i doubt it is, fusin hydrogen is more power consuming than fusing deuterium, due to the mass defference and momentum difference of both. One way he could prove this reactor works is by collecting the gas samples and doing some chromatography on it, see if helium or other atom thatisnt hydrogen is showing its colors.
@@WillFromLondon you should try making a portable brown gas generator like carlos arrache and hacker labs
@@NoSubsWithContent Hey, thats a good idea! I'll look into that.
Think I did it wrong.
Small black sphere hovering in the center of room, now. 🌌
It's removing all the dust and small flying insects though, so it's okay, I guess!
Hey, try to put your hand in it and see what happens :)
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As someone who has built a working farnsworth fusor I find this design pretty. His information is slightly deceptive though as this is NOT a neutron producing reactor. This is a demo fusor toy. To achieve measurable fusion you need to back fill the chamber with deuterium gas. What your seeing isn’t fusion. It’s a plasma generator.
Would hydrogen from water vapor in the air not be accelerated into the center at fast enough speed and temperature to cause fusion? Its a minuscule amount, not enough to get close to the power of the light emitted from the coronal discharge, but still occurring, no?
It's possible, but not plausible. You really don't record neutron production above background unless you're running some type of gas delivery system. His example is nice but not fully functional.
vizjournalist so would it work as a fusor if say he did inject the deuterium. Sorry I have no idea about this.
@@ianbennett5997 Is a cool-looking plasma light generator, otherwise known as an HID Xenon bulb, without a areflector. This is as much a plasma generator as an Audi headlight is.
Actually, it IS fusion and it DOES generate neutrons. The gas is deuterium, and these devices are commonly used as neutron generators. They just draw a lot of energy, and don’t produce enough energetic alpha participles to be useful as an energy generation device. Neutron generation has been verified by multiple studies when tested under controlled conditions.
I wish he went into more detail on this. He was kinda like here’s this and that now we put it together. But didn’t touch on a lot of stuff :/
That's how you can tell its not real. Even the details he did provide are wrong. It takes 4 hydrogen atoms to fuse into 1 helium atom. You can't just shove two hydrogen atoms together, because without at least one neutron in the nucleus, they'll bounce off each other no matter how much energy you put in.
He left it out intentionally so idiots don't blow themselves up or burn their houses down trying to harness 60-100k volts.
replying to last* lowkey was gonna build this for project and possibly would blow this up
Hey if you'd still like a better explanation of this I'd recommend this video th-cam.com/video/ZO5IZz9NgJA/w-d-xo.html they go more into depth on what fusion reactors are and plasma in general.
@Henry Andrews incorrect. It technically takes 6, but two are released when the He-4 nucleus is finally produced. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%E2%80%93proton_chain_reaction
Good video but it lacks explanations, it feels like an empty montage
Thank you! This was so frustrating to watch. He obviously had footage from all parts of the assembly process, but didn't explain any of it.
It is a pointless montage with op's spotify playlist. An incredible waste of time.
I was thinking the same, no build footage or commentary on what is happening, just Piece to camera, then a quick few shots with a totally out of place rap music backing track. Its a shame as the end result was really cool.
There is no explanation, because it's fake. No fusion, just plasma.
Yeah is does I really wanted to know how he sealed that thing to get got vacuum inside it also I wish he want into detail with the electronics and the voltage multiplier he made
3.6 Roentgen? Not great , not terrible
nice reference haha
The official position of the state is that a desktop fusion reactor cannot explode
LMAO i just watched chernobyl saw it all over in the comments haha
@@Randomchannel18443 Chernobyl references are literally everywhere XD
JonN_zy thats insane haha
Really cool video, you deserve more subs and you just got one more
I respect you, Integza but this guy with his fake crap
you should make one too
@@rohanverma6058 isnt fake crap!!! He indeed made a fusion reactor...however it wasnt capable of fusion( he needed a dedicated 2 stage vacuum system and needed to use deuterium gas instead of hydrogen
@@splatink its hella expensive to build a fusion reactor capable of achieve fusion
Integra? Mate, what are you doing in here? Lmao, love your videos, cheers!
Me: Watch HBO Chernobyl.
TH-cam: Wanna make reactor?
Skynet : "yes ... yes.... just convince the humans to nuke themselves...."
fusion it stupidly safe, no chance of nuke anything...
in fact it is stupidly hard to sustain the reaction.
if something go wrong it just turn it down.
FiSION is a chain reaction, FISION reactors are controled nukes... it is a chain reaction.
@@gonzajd777 Im aware of these facts, but these facts aren't funny
Nerds love rap better add more :(
Yeah bit fusion is safe
The fact that the quality, professionalism, and excitement of this video isnt in the millions is absurd
Because a fusor (what this is) doesn't actually produce nuclear fusion: www.fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=9072
@@davinderc calm down man it's a joke
#r/WHooooosh
@@jacksonli9002 r/doubkewooosh It was sarcasm
@@dylenogarcia @Davinder Chanhok, not you
Would have been nice to see it running in real time to see and hear it as well as run a number of qualitative & quantitative tests on it to see where things are.
With ordinary hydrogen shines just as well. This is an ordinary gas discharge lamp. Light is emitted when recombination of positive ions with electrons. A positively charged electrode separates the electron from the nucleus and a positively charged ion is formed - the nucleus of hydrogen. The positively charged hydrogen nucleus is accelerated by the electric field and flies towards the negatively charged grid. Electrons are produced on the grid, which recombine with hydrogen nuclei and emit light. If deuterium is used, then perhaps a small part of the hydrogen nuclei, accelerated by an electric field, collides in the center and forms helium-4. That is, nuclear fusion is purely kinetic. And it depends on the probability of getting into the effective cross section of the nucleus. To really start a thermonuclear reaction, you must first create a highly ionized deuterium plasma. Then, it is necessary to place this positively charged plasma in a very strongly positively charged sphere. So much charged that the repulsive force from the walls of the sphere was more repulsive forces in an array of nuclei. In this case, the nuclei will be concentrated and squeezed in the center of the sphere.
The acceleration of ions in a fusor has long been shown to allow for detectable neutrons and thus confirmed fusion reactions although I am doubtful due to him never showing his neutron detection.
666ALISA666 Why are so many people “debunking” him, this is just a joke video. It’s obviously not fusion... I think when you debunk this trying to show your smarts, it just makes you look stupid.
@@DaRealPianist he does have a system set up in the correct way to attain fusion of he was using the right fuel and a better pump. There is just a mix of people here who have worked with IEC fusion setups and are checking his system and those that don't know what any of it is
@@DaRealPianist He is being incredibly genuine in his replies to comments and is (from what I can tell) using the correct setup but with the wrong resources. This may not be fusion but it sure is close enough for him to think that it is, and nevertheless, "debunking" him when he thinks that he has done it correctly just means giving constructive criticism (I'm not talking about the people who don't know what they are talking about and just want to think that they are smart, so they comment with some below par Wikipedia research)
I'm sure there's no fusion taking place. There's a similar video of some two nerds building this thing, equipped with turbomolecular pumps and GM counters... etc Normal environmental radiation background count is usually 14. they used deuterium as fuel and they had to hide in another room. The GM counter showed some 63000 clicks per minute, I don't remember, but that is enough to give you radiation sickness or cancer. not a toy to light your room always. I also remember a teenager who wanted to build it and there was so much emphasis on safety first from his guides. A solution of boron salt is a must in order to absorb the high energy neutrons from a safety point of view.
I wish you had focused less on the music and more on actual information. What is the gas? What does it do? How are things working?
Such a shame. I had knowledge blue balls.
The gas looks to be hydrogen from the way it was made, but I'm not %100 sure tho
I wish you have fingers to google it...
@@superchristobat I wish you have grammar to reply..
One point for you. Your wish to become the king of dcks is getting real.
@@superchristobat ducks?
you've created a lightbulb
That was his intention?
More like a deathtrap
A complicated lightbulb 💡
jacksterprime just a normal lightbulb
He created what a traditional lightbulb would look like in a future where light sources produce little to no heat.
First non spherical fusor I’ve seen, so it’s good to see that the effect is not dependent on a uniform distance between anode and cathode. Would be interesting to see if a neutron detector picked up a significantly less output than a spherical fusor of the same radius. If not, then this fellow invented a miniaturized neutron generator!
I watched this twice, I noticed you didn't show how you made the middle piece that actually creates the light (plasma)..? And where did you hook the power supply up to?
@Theo RixLux Fellow physics undergrad, but I'd like to point out that this guy almost certainly did not achieve fusion (I don't trust anyone who thinks it only takes 2 hydrogen atoms to make a helium atom to be able to achieve fusion). I'd also like to point out that the only way to truly overcome the repulsion of protons during fusion is with neutrons, since they carry the strong nuclear force (this is why it requires 4 protons (actually, technically 6, but the end result of the reaction produces two extra protons in addition to the single helium nuclei), as opposed to 2, and while its an incredibly simplistic and incorrect way of looking at it, you can imagine that the mass of the helium nucleus must be equal to the mass of the hydrogen nuclei used to create it).
I'm also concerned by the lack of neutron radiation shielding, because unless this guy wants a slow, painful death via radiation poisoning or cancer, if he knew what he was doing, he would have included neutron shielding, and a brief explanation of why its necessary to have.
@Theo RixLux well I am not a physicist but the fusion reactors I have seen in documentaries require more than some hydrogen and some voltage (if I remember correctly they use some kind of piston setup to pressurize the inner chamber so that fusion can occur). I'd say this is just some plasma.
@Theo RixLux the magic of video editing.
@Theo RixLux also, there's no magic amount of energy that will allow two protons to stick together without at least one neutron. The coulomb forces are just too strong. Now, what can (and in the case of the proton-proton chain, MUST) happen, is that the energy of a proton-proton collision changes one of the protons into a neutron and emits a position and a neutrino.
@Theo RixLux You can ionize atoms even at room temperature.. it isnt really that hard.
What?! That's it?! What kind of video is that? No explanation of the physics behind it at all. Just a fancy hydrogen lamp it looked like.
its a build video, for a better explanation seek resources
thats byllshit at all, with tmp of 1MK this whole shit would melt down in a seconds even there is „vacum” nah probably around 0.5 P, so low vacum
Yeah I would have much rather watched a 45 minute video of him explaining how he did this and what each part does. Instead, we got a 7 minute video of him just showing it off. 😑
It's not a ''how to", not meant for education purposes
Billy Monday and that is why antivaxxers are a thing. Just telling him to do research without any context for what is or isn't true might lead them to the electric universe hypothesis.
This mini-sun has potential for making really amazing fly traps!
"do you taste metal?"
"He's delusional. Take him to the infirmary"
"The official position of the state is that a desktop fusion reactor cannot explode"
"THERE IS NO CORE!!!!! ITS EXPLODED!!!!"
Wrong type of reactor buddy
Ahhhh, i love the taste of metallic substances in the morning
Video: “The temperature at the center of this thing reached about a hundred million degrees”
Me: Yes, but did it generate 3 gigajoules per second?
Tony Stark be like hold my pulladium
gigajoules per second, ok
Is it powerful enough to run doom?
Our great lord Sheniqua you mean Crysis lol
Nuno Sousa yes, thats how energy works....
90% B-roll, 10% talking in front of a static camera
Your point
@@IntRocketLaunch that it's not instructional it's just eye candy which doesn't sit well with the kind of people who like this kinda stuff because they want to actually know details.
Just to clarify a little mistake you made in your video:
Kelvin is not measured in degrees...
^^ this is important
At those temps, it doesn't really matter
@@Tyrone-Ward It does always matter. Kelvin is not measured in degrees. Period.
It has nothing to do if you're at 300°C or -500°C. Kelvin will always be Kelvin, not "degrees Kelvin"
Yeah, your medal for catching that one is in the mail.
@@catdisc5304 As a fusion scientist at UTokyo I can tell you we usually use eV for temperature, it's a much more reasonable measure for plasma. If we do use degrees, we're not worried about the +-270 error margin when the plasma is at 10^7 degrees either way. Degrees Kelvin is a perfectly legitimate phrase, quit nitpicking to feel smart.
Do you have confirmed neutron emissions? What was the chosen reactant? A little doubtful sorry. Looks to me like a cathode tube with low pressure atmospheric gasses. Nice build though! Thumbs up.
Aaron yeah its a fake. It’s just a plasma cloud
my biggest blunder with this video was failing to say that this was a demo fusor. Shoddy writing on my part I’m afraid. I’m still learning how to do this and hopefully in future videos I’ll make things clearer! Thank you for the feedback though.
Cool beans bud, very nice machining vid. Love the diy keep it coming! I'll watch more!
I mean it looked like he was making some hydrogen gas which was then stored in that balloon and I assume sucked into the chamber once a vacuum was pulled
I figure he was going for D-D fusion. Deuterium is the easiest fuel source for hobbyists to get. I asked about neutron emissions too. That would be the smoking gun of his success.
Would have been nice to see the Geiger counter readings.
Josh Maine this doesn’t produce fast neutrons so there would be no reading above baseline.
Probably be giving off 3.6 roentgens, from what I hear that's equivalent to a chest X-Ray.
@@dustin872 this fucking meme XD when will it end.
@@dustin872 Not great, not terrible.
@@dustin872 that's hardly horrific
These guys are crazy. Great videography man... you got some skills! The mini fusor is nicely built as well. Kudos from a Nuclear Engineer and former machinist!
100 million degrees my sweet ars! Passing a 300 Amp arc through Argon only produces a plasma temp in the range of 25 to 30 thousand degrees and requires way the hell of a lot more power than you can get out of a wall socket. Next we will have Will telling us he has a bridge over the Thames he will sell us for just a few quid.
Nice work. I did this in 1987 when the cold fusion idea was originally floated. Im guessing your filament material was iron or possibly ni-chrome or tungsten. Regardless, If you ran this experiment for very long, you would have noticed the hydrogen "disappearing". Certainly not due to fusion, but to the adsorption of hydrogen into the filaments and the housing. Aluminum can do this and Fe is one of the best ways to store H2 in its metallic matrix. Back in the '80's we were using Palladium, as it too can absorb H2, D2 or T2.
The concept at the heart of this experiment is NOT the temperature but rather the electric potential required to accelerate ions toward each other. The accelerating force is inversely proportional to the distance from the electrode. So, very small distances from the cathode surface and high electrical potential means a greater force on the ions (protons or nuclei) You can do this with as little as 700 Volts DC (the Ionization of any gas in this way is called a cathodic discharge). Having a higher voltage is better for acceleration, but a lot of the gas that surrounds the plasma "thermal-ized" or slows the ions by bouncing into the balance gas. So Lower vacuum is good, but too low and you cannot sustain a plasma; so there is a critical gas pressure/temperature problem.
The proper set up for this experiment is to add a pressure / flow controller. It supplies balance gas and accounts for changes in pressure due to temperature rise of the apparatus and the balance gas.
lastly. you cannot fuse normal hydrogen. (I like you generated the hydrogen rather than bought it (H) as there is nothing to hold the nucleus together once the nuclei are in proximity. For the strong nuclear force to hold them together (remember; two positively charged particles close together see an ever increasing electrostatic force repelling them). To overcome this force you need another particle to contribute the strong force...namely a neutron. Thus you need deuterium or tritium isotopes of hydrogen for fusion; the extra neutrons providing the additional strong force. Once fused, any excess neutrons are ejected.
So to detect if fusion has occurred you need one of two kinds of detectors. 1. an ionization (or gamma ray) detector or 2. A neutron detector. The free neutron wont live long floating around by itself. As soon as it hits another element, like AL or FE, it creates an isotope of those elements and a gamma ray is given off. Or you can detect the neutron itself with a Boron/neutron detector.
I've often thought about re-creating these early experiments with some modern techniques. Palladium is not hard to come by nor is any of the transition elements which have these properties (Titanium, Vanadium, etc).
For those that haven't delved into this much; "cold" fusion does exist, but not in the form that would make it worthwhile. There is lots of evidence in the emissions from Volcanoes and some metamorphic rocks. I think the final statement about this phenomenon was "Cold Fusion is a rose; not a tree". Not sure where the current state of the art is; but if I had to guess, it would be at really cold temperatures because of the quantum mechanical aspects and not a high temperatures .
Nobody:
Will From London: "I made a miniature sun for your desktop!"
I very rarely comment on production quality, but I have to say this video really stands out with the crisp, well paced editing and choice of soundtrack (I also loved the Breaking Bad references). And the finished reactor wasn't bad either 😉 Brilliant job!
Two questions:
Does it still work?
Can you link some more detailed designs and calculations?
There's a hobbyist site for this called fusor.net. The first thing they will tell you is that measurable neutron counts are really really hard, i.e. D-D fusion is difficult on such a small scale. D-D fusion gives you light helium and a neutron. This guy does not have access to tritium, so no D-T reaction, and if he's trying proton-proton reactions with just regular hydrogen he's gonna have a bad time. Glowing purple is pretty normal for large scale plasmas, and impurities in air can also make a purple glow, so thats not a key indicator of whether this actually fused anything. You can make desktop fusion reactors, with a negative energy yield, but they have to be a lot more robust than this. He's most likely just heating hydrogen gas, if not he would have to be very careful with disposing of his apparatus, as neutron bombardment will create radio-active isotopes out of a lot of high z materials. Tungsten and carbon are often used in reactor walls as they create stable isotopes with the addition of a neutron. DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! Fusion reactors still produce radiation, especially with low budget setups that place impurities into the fuel.
Dude what's the name of the rap track for the first montage?
That's what I'm saying that's a bangin track
A bit late but it's Trembison - 40 Bars :)
Your montages remind me so much of those gritty British films from the 2000s. From the edgy background music to the snappy jump cuts and effects. I can really see the effort you put into editing. I love it; you earned my sub :)
I would really love to build one of my own after I finish my Tesla coil! Looks incredibly neat
Will! This is so sick! Knowledge was killer, engineering - expert, video production - next level. WTAF.... I think I wish I was Will......
amazing cinematography here. And just good ole fashioned simplified science. Love it.
"He's delusional, take him to the infirmary"
He's awesome
Stop making memes about Chernobyl, real people died there and you keep joking about it.
@@mrscientific4956 I want to say your wrong but your not...
@@mrscientific4956 Stfu...
Lol
This is just a home made neon bulb
Yeah a Nuclear reactor home made neon bulb
yeah a radioactive neon bulb
Good job man. You advanced to 1878.
OOF GET ROASTED
1964, Philo Farsworth
Oof
@@2smoker64 There's no fusion here.
@@Spirit532 i didnt see anything about deuterium in the video so no, no fusion
I don't really understand why people insist that this is fake. The Farnsworth Fusor is a well tested and well understood fusion reactor. The mechanism is fairly simple, a wikipedia search will verify this design as being commonplace. It is even mentioned on the fusor wikipedia page that this type of reactor has been taken up by hobbyists and amateurs. This is fusion, albeit an extremely inefficient form of it. Very cool.
Damn, why doesn’t he have more subs?This dudes video quality is a lot better than some people who have a million subs or more.
* First 20 seconds: * boy did I get baited.
"But I have an idea and i think it might be a little bit cooler."
:o
Cool project!
Love the Hot Fuzz and Breaking Bad montages!
Great content! Would love to see it a bit more detailed how you built it.
I made it, and it worked! Hold on, there's somebody on my front and back door.
I personally had a design for a fusion reactor that uses a vacuum chamber and a microwave oven. I speculate that the RF should heat up the low pressure gas to extremely high temperatures, which could cause some fusion events to occur.
I really liked the editing in this video, especially when you imitated the hot fuzz paperwork scenes.
yea those britans
Or, jumping back in front of the camera while removing the breathing mask..
I wonder with some of the disciplines used in Hydro engineering be useful in controlling the plasma in a TokaMac reactor. Such as controlling the vertices of energetic plasma.
Real scientists spend millions and thousand of hours of calculating and research to get their fusion reactors to work for a quarter of a second.
What you have there is just plasma. Energy in a near Vacuum.
I'm a chemist no physicist thought but have had to take Multiple Physik classes before earning my Bachelor
but the difference between him and a scientist is that scientist are trying to produce energy which is much harder. this is a fusion reactor, its just not a very god one
@@vincentsantangelo3920 OMG.
FUSION NEEDS MOLECULES TO FUSION ONE WITH A NOTHER.
if there is a vaccum that's means there is nearly nothing in that chamber. If there is nothing then there's nothing to fusion.
For fusion we usually try the Deutérium méthode where we have a H2 molecule reacting to form a He Atom. This process then ejects energy.
What he created there is just high voltage energy. Basically dense energy in a vacuume. An this is called Plasma.
You can see it in the color plasma has a special color Here as a star (fusion ) would have the color of the element that is being created (orrange blue etc )
I'm a chemistry bachelor major stating my master Thesis believe me when I say that that is not a fusion reactor. Look it up how fusion is made you'll see the sole part of there not being anything to fusion goes against the first law : nothing can be destroyed and nothing can be created. Everything is preserved
so instead of working on your thesis you decide your time is better spend telling a random stranger that their wrong?
@@vincentsantangelo3920 dude it's 23 pm ... I do work on my thesis after my classes but still have free time dude 😅 it's like any thesis you do it in your free time over 2 years with help of your lab assistant. (Assistant is just the word for it, your assistant actually has a doctor title himself he just assists you on your thesis )
So yea I basically have the same spare time as anyone else that studies at a normal pace.
And its actually my pet peeve this type of video especially the poeple believing this bullcrap...
It's something that can easily be debunked with some basic science understanding but poeple see some energy in a vacuume and believe anything.
Engineers actually are pretty dumb most of the time. Most of the calculations and drawings come from poeple with a master degree or doctor degree the engineers are just there to execute what the scientist tells them to do.
So this guy is just an engineer that's the reason he has 0 scientific understanding. He puts a few resistances together that's about it.
Does it look cool. Yes I guess so the same way a lava lamp looks cool . But he shouldn't be lying on his channel for views. Just makes poeple say this kind of shit to me at parties "you're a scientist right ? Have you seen the guy that made a fusion reactor in his parents basement ? "
" Have you seen the solar roadways ! "
"Elon musk is such a genius ! Have you seen his flying car idea ?! "
Yes all this I have seen. No nothing of this is actually logically backed. And no these poeple are not geniuses, if anything they have no understanding of basic physics ..... They have a good marketing gift tough
calm down also did you hear about the boy out that build a nuclear reactor in his backyard
Most cleanest fusor I have ever seen
Couple of questions
1. Why doesn't the copper melt? Is it because of magnetic fields?
2. How do you put a gas is it?
3. Is the pump constantly working? If so why is the gas turning into plasma?
Please consider making a follow up video.
Your music taste rocks on these videos, whats the track list?
Yeah Will, some explanation would be great. A Geiger counter in the first act means ionizing radiation by the third act. Look up Chekhov's Gun.
Fusion releases some ionising radiation but nowhere near as much Fission.
That belongs in a rap song.
"Yeah Will, some explanation would be great. A Geiger counter in the first act means ionizing radiation by the third act. Look up Chekhov's Gun!"
amazing reactor! But could you maybe make a video on you explaining how the whole reactor works
This video is a lit content. That Breaking Bad montage was awesome 👌
And instructions are good.
I am really glad you survived that 100,000,000°k right in froint of your face but it is a beautiful lightbulb.
We barely saw it running, i wanted to see it on a longer period of time
There's a reason for that lmao do you understand how hot those fuckers get? If you left it on for any extended period of time it would have just melted down.
@@thugasaurusrex6004 its not a fusion reactor anyway its a glorified plasma lamp
@@leafboy3967 no it's a fusor
Editing feels like a Guy Ritchie flick. I like your style.
A hundred million degrees.....hmmmm
Nice light bulb man
yep.
He said KELVIN. That’s “light temperature” not ambient or PHYSICAL temperature
Maybe you could make an mhd generator out of two doughnut magnets and two rings. The magnets are stacked attracting each other. The rings could be inside or out with a small space. Just so the ionized gas goes into the rings. The magnets polarized the charges to the plates to work like a battery?
best video about diy fusion ive ever saw
That's... not a fusor. That is just a fluorescent light bulb: the high voltage is ionizing the low pressure hydrogen around the cathode and the anode. That blue glow is indeed plasma and it surely reach several thousand kelvin in temperature, but it is NOT fusing anything and it is not at several million kelvin: black body radiation ensure that at 100.000.000K you aren't getting much visible photons, you're getting mostly gamma photons, which are invisible to us. Even a neon lightbulb is coated with fluorescent paint inside to boost the luminosity, because most of the "light" emitted there are UV rays.
That's something you learn in high school, not with a PhD in nuclear physics.
That’s absolutely correct!
So where do you think the radiation came from? do you think he faked it?
@@1997CWR Sure. Obvious, I was watching it and was 100% sure it wont be fusion at all after the first 3 mins
@@RegiJatekokMagazin I mean it would be really easy to just put the ticking sound in audio. And we never saw the Geiger counter, so we really have no proof.
It could be a fusor if he used deuterium gas instead of regular hydrogen. Pretty cool desk lamp but not a fusor...
Finally, a channel that isn't afraid to use music right
Nicely done, Comrade.
I see a lot of comments saying what you did wrong; how this is just plasma, however they are missing the biggest problem you have. If you look into the purple part of the light you will notice a deep ray coming from the cross section of the membrane reflecting into the T cell. With this reflection the apical meristem is deflecting light into the root of the problem.
Long story short, your flux capacitor is wired in backwards and you just read this entire post for nothing and I’ve taken valuable moments of your time you will never get back, but you just can’t stop reading can you. Sitting on the toilet, laying in bed, chilling in your recliner, seeking videos to power your home with a small reactor so you can cruise through the comment section on TH-cam and feel empowered. Have a nice day. 👁
Madness . Of course my first suggestion is to pulse different coils around it to see effect and direrent duty and freq . Static magnets too. Second is different inert gases and 3rd in element powders from gardening , pool and household cleaning chemicals. Maybe dip the star in it
High voltage in a vaccum, So a lightbulb!
Yeah a light bulb that emits Violet light and X-Rays
The power of the sun, inside my hands
nekk - Look at the Cutest Thing and Nothing Else ! 😂 -Doc Oc.
400 grid sand paper would have saved a lot of trouble haha
LOL when the music started. Such a stark contrast to the presenters delivery.
Okay, that's a Farnsworth Fusor, invented by Philo Farnsworth, who also invented the video camera (and a lot more things related to television). I'd expect that the heat and high voltage would quickly erode your silver-plated coating inside the chamber. And the device is putting out UV, X-rays, and energetic neutrons; don't sit too close to it.
Heard millions of degrees
Thought everything was melting
Nvm it was just in Kelvin and talking about the movement
Kelvin is on the same order of magnitude as Celsius or Fahrenheit. 273.15K is 0°C, and 373.15K is 100°C. The temperature is high, but there's nothing to transfer it to. And temperature is always about the movement of molecules, that's litteraly what it is.
Congratulations, you've created an incredibly inefficient hydrogen lamp
That was kind of the plan.
Congratulations you made yourself a man with a mutilated penis.
you know everyone should just appreciate that its a cool little toy that looks fun
It is important to get it right and at least call it what it is.
Oh my God!!! I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!! You did it you actually did it, you have the sun on your desktop. A work of art just like the sun. All that energy, all that lovely energy never-ending power, and energy.
This video is amazingly professional.
I feel this video ended too soon, I was waiting for you to elaborate on what happened exactly, present and prove that its legit, cool video though :)
the effects are cool i guess... but i kind of wanted to know like what you actually did?
If you're still wondering about it I'd recommend this video th-cam.com/video/ZO5IZz9NgJA/w-d-xo.html they go more into depth on how this type of thing works and plasma in general
Dope build and even better editing, you deserve millions of subs.
Your channel should be much much much bigger like tens of millions of veiws and millions of subscribers, but that means you need to make more videos
Nothing like alpha particles to set the mood
Not exactly what i came for but hey its a cool looking lamp XD
"FUSION REACTOR!!!"
_not even an ARC reactor_
The ARC reactor is basically a "cold fusion" reactor
It’s a high voltage light bulb in vacuum not a fusion reactor.
@@mohanrs8270 it's a fusor
Well, it did use an electric arc to ignite it, so it kind of is an Arc reactor.
Cannot believe how ignorant you are
Is it safe to be close to this thing while it operates? You had a guiger counter. Why no mention of radiation?
you can hear the geiger counter scream in the background
Because he made a Plasma lamp and not a reactor. I guarantee that thing gave off no additional radiation than just background rads.
The Geiger counter went off like crazy in the background. It is not safe to be close to one unless you know what radiation it is and have the necessary protection. Alpha radiation is incredibly ionising but is blocked easily, Beta is harder to block but less ionising, and gamma is much harder to block but the least ionising. I believe that successful fusion reactions release neutrons (I have no idea where this goes on the scale, or how dangerous it is), however, this experiment was not successful and created a hydrogen lamp instead. I am not sure what radiation this emits and I would not risk being close to one
@@MineThing you do realize he added that sound in afterwards for "Cool factor" right?
You did a lot of hard work for it....kudos to you❤❤
Awesome ! Have not heard of the Farnsworth Tech. since the 1970's !!!!
Brilliant editing, felt like a Guy Ritchie film
He may not be the Guy to make an informative video.
@@GrahamRounce I'm not fussed, who's actually gonna try build this anyways so what's the point in putting in loads of detail step by step when it would make the video slower and more boring to most
12000 roetgens for effort. Impressive.
Was this for a school project?
Braiden Robson Nah, just a personal project!
A film project apparently...
Probably one of the reasons that you don't get a better output to input energy is your high voltage circuits. Just a couple of AA batteries would be enough to create a crazy HV for a very long time because after getting the initial voltage on your plates in theory you have no moving charges thus no current and power consumption.
When the internet says you need a Geiger counter to complete your project, maybe skip that one. 🏃😂
TELL ME HOW AN RBMK REACTOR EXPLODES???
omg i loved that series so much
"3.6 roentgen.. Not too great, not too terrible".
Legit not even related to this video other than the word "reactor" in the title
That is fission, fusion reactors cannot explode.
The quality of this video is so good, the different types of editing makes it really cool to watch!
Great job, keep it up!
No, it was not.
@@tristanyoh8405 Why not?
Next: making a desktop nuclear reactor
You do know that a fusion reactor is a nuclear reactor right?
@@3User No, man, and now I feel stupid, but at least I have 4 thumbs up. And that's the story of my life
Your production quality is outstanding.
You are a badass high tech and cool music and great editing and production you’re a new generation of awesomeness
1:30 Does anyone know the Song?? Plsss
Fabian Rombach it's Trembison - 40 Bars soundcloud.com/trembisonbc/trembison-40-bars-produced-by
Really likes this. Will you publush plans or drawings for the device? Particularly the internal element? Nicely machined too.
r/woosh
Charlie Gengo I hope you realize that this is a real thing...
if fusion rectors would that be ez to build..... btw it was not fusion
Actually Inertial Electrostatic Confinement devices such as this one (although I doubt this specific device did ) regularly perform fusion reactions at rates of several million neutrons per second. these devices are extremely inefficient but do get the job done and have since their invention over half a century ago. These devices work by creating a potential difference between two spherical electrodes which are transparent to the ions. A rarefied atmosphere of hydrogen-2 aka deuterium is ionized by the outer electrode and then the positive ions are attracted towards the centre. Yes the light seen is due to the same effect as in neon lights however at a much higher energy. Any fusion reactions must be detected as the neutrons emitted by the device as the ions fuse. As for the temperature, the required energy is imparted upon each ion in the same way as in a particle accelerator and thus the "temperature" is more equivalent to relative velocity and at below 1.0x10^5 Torr the ion temperature can be generalized as about 11.0x10^7 degrees Kelvin for every increase of 1000 volts potential difference. Thus running at 30kV these devices easily break 300 million degrees kelvin. These devices, sometimes called Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusors, are mostly used as high energy neutron sources and because of their high energy capabilities they are also used to study higher energy fusion, such as proton boron fusion. The heavier devices you are referring to are likely the more efficient magnetic confinement devices. these devices contain plasma in different geometries of solenoids and thus have a different set of operating principles, usually using neutral beam injection or microwaves to heat their plasma rather than a voltage acceleration as this is inefficient. There are many examples of good research done using IEC fusion devices and while this one may be misleading I hope that it has not put you off of the topic and I welcome you to explore the fascinating research done with ion accelerating fusion devices like these. For my part I invite you to make a simple one as it can be a fantastic experience and help to build an intuition for thermo distributions and high voltage potentials, they can be cheap and easy to make so long as you don't try to get them to do fusion as that usually takes an expensive steel chamber although no increase in size, the whole experience is one I myself have and one I believe many more should try.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_electrostatic_confinement
www.fusor.net/board/index.php?sid=8dbb489f34fedd7744cb9b76709dd057
and visit my channel for fusor tests and other experiments with high voltage if you would like :)
No take 2 magnets and attach them to each open end of the cylinder so that the opposing poles are facing eachother, hook them both up to a rotational device and spin them clockwise at a very high rpm
I am a student and I can tell that it's plasma. Plasma is there in Fusion reactors but the thing which is going inside the chamber isn't fusion